Skirt and belt supporter.



No. 634,380. I Patented Oct, 3, I899.

A. M. TULLY. SKIRT Ann BELT-SUPPOBTER.

(Application filed May 5, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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ALICE M. TULLY, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y.

SKIRT AND BELT SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 634,380, dated October 3, 1899.

I Application filed May 5, 1898. Serial No. 6 79,'792. N model.)

To all whom, it 71mg concern:

Be it known that I, ALICE M. TULLY, of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have i11- vented a new and Improved Skirt and Belt Supporter, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in devices adapted to engage a waist and to support a skirt and also to engage a belt and hold it in place.

My invention consists of novel features hereinafter described, and defined in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of one form of my device. Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing another form, and Fig. 8 shows a modified form of hook.

That form of my improved device shown in Fig. 1 consists of two safety-pins A and B, formed with the usual guards or keepers for the points of the pin-bars a, and the safetypin A is formed in its bar opposite the pinbar with outwardly-extendin g arms E, terminating in hooks F. The pin Bis arrangedto be detachably connected with the pin A by having its bar G opposite its pin-bar formed with arms G, terminating in eyes 9, which, as shown, are adapted to be inserted over the hooks F. described above, I preferably bend the wires to form the usual end coils, and in the case' of the hook-pin A twist the wires together to form the arms E, and then spread the wires apart to form loops, and cut the end of the loops to form the hooks F, which latter are afterward pointed. This pin A so formed practically consists of three connected sections, of which the first is the pin-bar a, the coil, the portion marked (1, one coil of the adjacent arm E, and one prong of the adjacent hook F. The second section is marked D and forms the other coil of the arm and prong of the hook just mentioned and is twisted together'with the third section 01 to form with such section the other twisted arm E and other hook F.

In the case of the safety-pin B, I form such pin by twisting together portions of the bar In order to form these safety-pins- G and separating such portions at the end of the twists to form the eyes g.

In the form shown in Fig. 2 the points of the hook-prongs are given a sharp bend, as shown at f, in order to enable the pin to more firmly engage the material than when hooks with straight points or ends are employed. Also, as shown in said figure, I sometimes dispense with the second safety-pin B and use instead a pin 0, formed of a piece of wire pointed at each end and provided with two coils or eyes 0, adapted to engage the hooks F. The distance between the points of the pin 0 may be reduced by springing the wire at the eyes 0 and inserting both points into the material of the dress, and the eyes may then be allowed to spring back to their normal position.

As shown in Fig. 3, a modification of the hooks may be made by twisting one prong f about the other. This binds the two firmly together and leaves only one point exposed, which latter may extend upward, as in Fig. l, or downward, as in Fig. 2.

Each of the forms of the device described above will engage the inner surface of the belt and will leave no part of the device exposed.

I am aware that skirt-supporters have heretofore been made to connect the skirt to the belt and by pinning the skirt and waist together before attaching the device to the belt connect the waist, belt, and skirt together; but such devices have not been adapted for the use of my device, which, as its name signifies, engages the waist, the belt, and the skirt-band each by a separate means and holds each part securely in place. When the one safety-pin is attached to the shirt-waist and the second pin is secured to the skirtband, the eyes on the latter pin may be easily passed over the hooks, which secures the Waist and skirt together, and the belt then put around the waist, with the points of the hook entering the inside of the belt. Thus it will be seen that the belt, as well as the skirt and waist, is held securely in placeahd that by reason of the hooks entering the belt the one pin can never be disconnected from the other so long as the belt is in place, while it is only necessary to remove the belt to dis?- connect the skirt from the waist without reed hook, and asecond pin adapted for engagei ment with a skirt-band and having an eye arl ranged forinsertion over the said hook wherej by to hold the waist and skirt detaehably connected together, the point of the hook being adapted to enter the inside of a belt whereby j the belt is held in place and the eye is prevented from coming 01f the hook so long as the belt is in place, as and for the purpose set forth.

ALICE M. TULLY;

Witnesses: H. L. REYNOLDS, 1 EVERARD BOLTON MARSHALL. 

